The Arizona sentinel., 1887-04-30
GENERAL.

-COal naS been SJruck near Oun ana
 Neb., at depth of $40 feet The coal
 is said to be of very good quality and
 the vein is four feet thick. Cincinnati
 Times.
 Bears are considered by employees
 in geological gardens as being the
 most treacherous of animals. They
 are the most uncertain in temper, and
 are the cause of more deaths in
 menageries and among showmen than
 lions and tigers. When they are
 young they are playful and affectionate,
 but when they grow up their tempers
 seem to Chicago Times.
 The cultivation of cranberry bogs
 was introduced by one John Webb, of New Jersey, a poor cripple, who eked
 put small living by gathering wild
 cranberries when he was not working his poor farm. Observing the nature
 of their growth he devoted his farm, which was mostly bogs, to their culti- vation, and in a few years ranked with New Jerseys wealthiest citizens.
 Morgan Dunn, farmer in Washing
 ion County, Pennsylvania, has sudden
 ly discovered that for a number of years he has been paying taxes in the wrong county. He always thought that he was living in Greene County until one day last week, when survey DTS proved to him that he was mistaken, and that he was really living in Wash ington County. Pittsburgh Post.
 Two citizens of Oroville, Cal, bought lottery ticket, agreeing that if it drew prize the money should be equally divided. It did draw five thou sand dollars, but the man who held it would not divide the money. The other brought suit, and the judge has just decided that, the sale of lottery tickets being contrary to law, the holder of the money can not be forced 70 divide.
 A Maine farmer, in packing bar rel of apples for shipment, inclosed in the barrel letter asking the buyer to write to him. Recently the farmer re- ceived a letter from an English apple dealer, who said that he had purchased the fruit in Liverpool. He said the apples were in a first-class condition, and asked the Maine man to send him at once all the apples he had on hand.
 A fellow who has mania for throwing ink worked Baltimore for awhile, and then went to Philadelphia, where he now is. He mingles in crowds and has spray by which the ink is spattered over his victims at tire. He has ruined as many as twen- iJ11 r. dresses and cloaks in one evening. He can have no other motive but pure deviltry, and if caught it wouldn't be a bad plan to make an ink bottle of him.
 It is understood that the Great Eastern IS once more to be used for trading purposes, and she is expected to do good work in carrying produce between England and the Antipodes. The intention is to have her newly en- gined by Messrs. J. Elder & Co.,, and to have her paddles removed and it is anticipated that when she has passed through the hands of the shipbuilders she will attain a speed of twenty knots Times.
 James Stevenson, of the Geological Survey, who has been examining the ancient habitations of Arizona, New Mexico and Southern California, di- vides them into cliff buildings, built in excavations on the sides of canyons, the hollows being natural, the fronts artificial, and cave dwellings which have been dug out of the faces of bluffs 10 accommodate single families. An. other subdivision is into agricultural and pastoral dwellings.
 -One of the most serious draw. backs to railroad travel in Venezuela IS grasshoppers. They are so numerous that they literally cover the rails for miles, and as they do not attempt to get out of the way of the engine, millions of them are crushed under the wheels and make the track so slippery that trains are often brought to a standStill It is said that this grass hopper plague will last for seven years.
 One of New York's rich men is often seen driving Fifth avenue stage up or down town, while the regular driver sits quietly at his side Two drove a daily coach to to Pelham every day last season. Two aff1uent members of the Knickerbocker Club manned Third avenue horse-car during the hottest days of the strike and made the trip to the City Hall and | back in safety. All this for amuse- ment.-M r Herald
 A California editor thinks that republics are ungrateful, and, ap- parently, he has reason. He says: We wrote up a whole paper of able articles about San Benito County left nothing to write about-printed | 50, 900 copies, lost S275 on the venture, knocked down a dirty, lying dog be- fore we could collect what we did get, | broke our fist on the scoundrelly CUTS | teeth, got blood poisoning, had three | doctors waiting on us, and didn't get | out of bed for three months"
 One of the features of drama given one night recently at San An Jonio, Tex, was hanging scene. In order to relax the strain of the moose around the neck of the man who acted | he part of the victim concealed rope